Increasingly the need is recognized for safe and effective care of
children being transferred for specialist services. Whether a
premature baby or a critically ill child is being transported,
specialist skills and knowledge are required.
This book, based on a highly popular course from the University
Hospitals of Leicester, covers the processes involved in
transporting sick children and neonates. The book is also the
coursebook for NEOSTAR, which will be run by the Advanced Life
Support Group. Major sections cover:
Planning transport programmes
The clinical management of different groups of critically ill
infants and children.
This tried and tested, practical guide is ideal for doctors,
nurses and other health care workers that are involved with
organizing transport services or who may be care for babies and
children during transfer.
Chapters include:
Principles of safe transport
Transport physiology
The ambulance environment
Equipment and monitoring
Air transport of critically ill children
Neonatal resuscitation and stabilization
Paediatric resuscitation and stabilization
Management of airway and breathing
Management of the circulation
Trauma
Special transport interventions
What to do when it all goes wrong
Drugs
General
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